Ego Dominus (Pieter Maessens)
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- Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2023-09-28). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 95 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth.
General Information
Title: Ego Dominus
Composer: Pieter Maessens
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1554 in Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quatuor vocum, liber 4, no. 2
2nd published: 1556 in Evangelia dominicorum et festorum dierum tomus sextus (Berg & Neuber, Nuremberg), no. 29
Description: Published by Susato as anonymous (1554)
and by Berg & Neuber as the work of Pieter Maessens (1556)
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Ego Dominus.
Hoc est nomen meum.
Gloriam meam alteri non dabo
nec aliud nomen in quo oporteat vos salvos fieri.
Quocumque detinemini morbo praeter nomen meum
et omnis quicumque invocaverit nomen meum salvus erit,
quia in gloriam meam creavi eum, plasmavi eum et feci eum.
Venite ergo ad me omnes qui laboratis et onerati estis
sarcina quantumvis gravi peccatis referta.
Verum tuebor quod nemo rapiet vos
e manu mea tum ut pupillam oculi mei custodiam
et in regnum meum perpetuum perducam.
Amen.